Early History-
Arrac was one of the many colonies founded by the Tufan Emperor Lesterius during his reign. Arrac was founded in 4100 B.C. and was among seven temples built onward along the coasts of the Metaoddesean Sea and the Tufan Sea by Tufan settlers from the city of Felica.

The Emperor Presco II made Arrac a seat of the local county, Arracia, in 3926 BC; it soon turned into a thriving seaport and major cultural center. As Tufan power waned during the 3700’s BC, Arracians acknowledged Dannesian over lordship. Although Arrac became a powerful city-state after the fall of the Tufans, Dannesian’s reasserted its domination after defeating an Arracian army in 3601 BC.

In 3550 BC Arrac joined the Dannesian League, joining the city-states of Jaros, Krakiu and Narnio against domination by the Tonistoval Empire. Arrac was held siege in 3507 BC. The lifting of the siege was attributed to the divine intervention of the armies of the Church and was commemorated by the striking of coins bearing a cross and the image of Pope Christian I. Arrac accepted Tonistovalian rule under Genera the Great, regaining independence only with the collapse of Tonistovalian might. In 2952 BC, the city's treasury was drained to buy off marauding Pagans.

Dannuni Empire and Dannunifian Kingdom-
A free city under the Dannuni Empire, it gradually fell under imperial control and briefly lost its freedom under the emperor Dariun Secundus. When, in 1096 BC, it sided with the usurper Carlos du Dannuni, the Dannuni emperor Dariun Filio massacred the populace, razed the walls, and annexed the remains to the city of Nastru.

Subsequently, Daniel Filio rebuilt the city on the same spot but on a grander scale. Although sacked again by Pagans in 268 BC, the city was strong enough two years later to resist an Elixian invasion. In the subsequent civil wars and rebellions that broke out sporadically in the Dannuni Empire, Arrac remained untouched until the arrival of the Dannunifian Kingdom --the first Dannunifian king Daniel I ordered a rebirth of Arrac as a strong southern providence. Overcoming the army of a rival Elixian emperor, Felix Smatio, at nearby Nastru, on September 18, 324 AD, Daniel I became head of the whole Dannunifian Kingdom at its peak, east and west and north and south. He decided to make Arrac his southern presidium.

Culturally, Arrac fostered a fusion of Dannunifian and Felisorian customs, art, and architecture. The church established an Archbishopric, one of the first, in Arrac to convert the Pagans that continued to attack the Felisorians and the Dannunifians alike.

The concept of the divine right of kings, rulers who were defenders of the faith--as opposed to the king as divine himself--was further evolved there. The gold Peso of Daniel served as a monetary standard for more than a thousand years.

Arrac became a key ecclesiastical center. In 381 it became the seat of a patriarch who was second only to the bishop of Sacia; the patriarch of Arrac is still the nominal head of the Church in Stenfine and the Felisorian Peninsula. Daniel I and this son Daniel II inaugurated the first ecumenical councils; the first six were held in or near Arrac.

In the 5th and 6th centuries Dannunifian kings were engaged in devising means to keep the southern providences as part of the kingdom. In the 8th and 9th centuries Arrac was the center of the last major battle between Pagans and the Church.

By the end of the 4th century, the city walls had become too confining for the wealthy and populous metropolis. St. John Arracis, writing at the end of that century, said many nobles had 10 to 20 houses. Doors were often made of ivory, floors were of mosaic or were covered in costly rugs, and beds and couches were overlaid with precious metals.

In 1033 A.D. the Dannunifian Army was allotted quarters in the city itself with special orders to capture and/or destroy the rebel Edgar Tommie and his followers. Harbarch Merino, charged with this duty, organized the Legion of Arrac and set out to track the Tommie Expedition.

Arrac was the launching point of the Dannunifian armies that attacked into early Deutscheslavania. These attacks continued and Arrac entered a golden age. This age ended with the conclusion of the War of Deutscheslavanian Conception in 1102. The city lost its prominence and its legion was disbanded in favor of a home guard.

Arrac in Modern Times-
Arrac, in modern times, was attacked an annexed by the Felisorian Kingdom in 1502. The Felisorians built up Arrac and created the Santos Wall, a series walled fortresses designed to keep the Dannunifians from crossing onto the Felisorian Continent. The massive wall was finished in 1510.

King Michael I lead an army against the Dannunifian Southern Legion and recaptured three contested duchies. He traded them back to insure the permanence of the 1510 borders. Michael I declared the Kingdom to be a second Tufan Empire. Arrac once again became a fortress city.

In 1520, the Church attempted to ease hostilities between the Felisorian Kingdom and the Dannunifian Kingdom by holding a peace conference between Deutscheslavania and Dannunifius at Arrac. The Treaty of Arrac, which is primarily known for the partition of Jamsterdavania, also gave created a lasting peace between Dannunifius and the Felisorian Kingdom.

Arrac once again prospered under the shadow of the Santos Wall and the peace that it brought.

When the Felisorian Kingdom was overthrown in favor of the Republic of Elix in 1850, Arrac was burned in a riot. The Republic rebuilt the city at a great personal cost to its capital, Elix. This began a long decline in the economy that would eventually lead to the rise of the Axis Empire in the 1970’s.

In 1984, High General Felix Quinon placed the aging Herr Kernal Christi Eleven in the position of Military Governor of Arrac. Eleven had been exiled to Arrac after his defeat to the United Allies in the Forth World Conflict and was forbidden to command an army. Eleven grew to love Arrac and, although willing to defend it at all costs, surrendered Arrac to the Jamsterdavanian and Deutscheslavanian armies at the end of the Eighth World Conflict in 1993.

Eleven died in 1996 and was hailed as a hero. A section of the Temple of Mari was dedicated to him and it was there he was laid to rest.